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A coach offers many advantages, such as:

• Independence
• Impartiality
• Objectivity
• Wide knowledge and experience
• Different viewpoint
• Experience of weighing opportunities, risks, and rewards
 
THE BENEFITS

Coaching yields a multitude of benefits. The exact nature of these benefits depends in part on the precise form and style of the coaching relationship, but here are a few of the most common:

• Coaching helps people order priorities.  They gain clarity and confidence because the coach helps them think matters through thoroughly. True to the old adage, “a problem shared is a problem halved,” the coach can lighten the executive’s burden.

• The coaching process helps the executive identify the skill-sets he/she needs to move up to the next step on the career ladder, to acquire the resources, and take the actions that are needed in order to get there.

• The coach often can bring a wealth of experience gained from other similar situations, which the executive will value as enlightening and refreshing. An executive’s problems are not as unique as he or she may believe.